Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Public administration and management in central government has stood up to these strains , but the weakness has shown itself in the apparatus of policy formulation and in the quality of many government decisions over the last 25 years . |
| 2 | The weakness has shown itself in the apparatus of policy formulation and in the quality of many government decisions over the past 25 years . " |
| 3 | RECRUITING IN A RECESSION Taking on new staff is rarely a company priority in a recession , but The Freshman Consultancy has established itself in the recruitment business in spite of the current climate |
| 4 | And of course has established itself as a leading player in this industry . |
| 5 | It brought us to a stage of development when , with a student population of almost 5000 , the university has established itself as a viable , innovative , vibrant and mature institution . |
| 6 | A stone age management opportunity has revealed itself to the Directors of AIB Bank plc in Britain . |
| 7 | Her hair , red snakes struggling to free themselves from the hairpins , was the only vital thing about her . |
| 8 | The warm-blooded supporters tend to ally themselves with the supporters of a theory about the relationships of the dinosaurs . |
| 9 | Since 1985 , the Association has promoted itself in the South but has encountered difficulty in establishing a countrywide structure due in even part to branches being thin on the ground in some areas and the difficulty in telling all assistant managers of the benefits and purpose of the Association . |
| 10 | The UNO coalition has distanced itself from the contras , as has the US Administration by ending military aid . |
| 11 | Labour has committed itself to a wide range of civil-liberties legislation and constitutional reform when it returns to government , to counter what its Deputy Leader , Mr Hattersley , has described as the vulnerability of traditional freedoms to the dual threat of ‘ legal restriction and a cynical partnership between Government and private enterprise ’ . |
| 12 | In later years , say 1964 , 1974 , 1984 , the first vision of Nozières took on its perfection and primacy , as it is only after the mind has cleared itself of the flow of daily preoccupation , planning , expectation , that the moment of a death can be known for what it is , and one 's life mapped , prospectively and retrospectively , to that threshold . |
| 13 | Holly straightened himself , shrugged at his shoulders to try to rid himself of the weariness , gazed back at the man 's face . |
| 14 | Nobody will ever know for sure how much Ken tried to rid himself of the camp , ‘ Carry On ’ image . |
| 15 | Ken tried to rid himself of the guests , so that he could get away to the theatre , by telling Pat to call him to an imaginary telephone call . |
| 16 | Dr Neil tried to calm himself by a grave examination of the doll , as though it were one of his patients , holding the tiny wrist to take the pulse , only to see the laughter on her face , and for that to provoke him to further inward excesses . |
| 17 | Place and spirit of place is the inspiration of more poetry than we nowadays like to admit ; and to do that poetry justice , the critic needs to turn himself into a tourist . |
| 18 | For the first time , a major interpretative musician has equipped himself with the necessary skills to mastermind his own visualization of the music he conducts , which allows him , in the process , to offer a new generation of music-lovers a sophisticated set of options for the study and appreciation of music in performance . |
| 19 | One strand of modern research has devoted itself to the ferociously difficult task of building formal models that precisely state the conditions that are necessary and sufficient for competition to work , and describe whether and in what sense the result is ‘ efficient ’ . |
| 20 | She had even felt her mouth begin to twist itself into a grin … . |
| 21 | Such a figure tends to replicate itself in the relationships and practices in which children engage in later life . |
| 22 | These are the remains of unfortunate wretches driven to kill themselves in a futile attempt to escape the torments of the Castle . |
| 23 | Held , dismissing the appeal , ( 1 ) that either the mother as donee of the power of attorney had possessed sufficient general understanding and capability to have satisfied herself regarding the purport and effect of the transfer document and had failed to do so , or she had lacked ordinary competence and capacity , in which case the defendant , as donor , could not be allowed to repudiate the transfer to an innocent third party ; that , if the case was that the defendant had failed to inform the donee of the power of attorney , that lack of care also precluded him from relying on her ignorance of the power ; and that , therefore , the fact that the mother had been tricked into signing the transfer document without reading it , was not sufficient to sustain a plea of non est factum ( post , p. 679A–F ) . |
| 24 | And it 's too wide to loop the line around ; I wo n't have enough slack left to lower myself to the hole . ’ |
| 25 | The defendant had placed himself in a position where his duty and interest conflicted even though both the employee and client appear to have had no intention of remaining with the plaintiff . |
| 26 | All three brothers had settled themselves in the area , Nathan 's being a pleasant semi-detached residence of three storeys . |
| 27 | In a playing career that ended the month Graeme Souness arrived at Rangers , Johnstone had excelled himself as a rumbustious centre-forward . |
| 28 | He had gagged for hours following the ordeal , convinced that one of the dog 's hairs had lodged itself at the very back of his throat where his fingers were unable to reach . |
| 29 | She had got as far as pulling out her suitcase , which looked scruffier than ever now that her eyes had accustomed themselves to the comfortable luxury of Luke Hunter 's flat , and laying it open on the bed before something inside her rebelled . |
| 30 | Harry went slowly and cautiously through the gully , feeling his way at every step until his eyes had accustomed themselves to the darkness , and could judge distances and distinguish the shapes of the weathered planes of rock that leaned over him . |